Summary: In 2008 Hollywood filmmaker, Jennifer Lynch traveled to India to direct Hisss, a tale about the vengeful snake goddess, Nagin. This documentary captures her experience in the chaotic world of Bollywood-Hollywood filmmaking where "chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All men seem hopelessly obsessed with Pandora, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, but she has eyes only for Hendrick, who has been cursed to sail the seven seas for all eternity in search of a woman who will sacrifice her life for him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PANSummary: (A matter of life and death) British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 8 MILMenon, Rajan
Summary: The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy -- building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 MENMenon, Sandhya
Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENMenon, Sandhya
Summary: Told in two voices, disappointed-in-love Ashish Patel and self-proclaimed fat athlete Sweetie Nair begin to find their true selves while dating under contract.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENMenon, Sandhya
Summary: When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENContents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WEMenon, Sandhya
Summary: Told through letters, aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson about love while directing a movie for the Midsummer Night arts festival, in which her longtime crush and his twin brother are also participating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENMenon, Uma
Summary: "Recounting her mother's migration from India and how she came to speak two languages--Malayalam and English--a young girl shows how the gift of multilingualism can transport people across borders and around the world"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lain is accused of stealing people's secrets and is abandoned by her friends and family only to learn that her virtual self in the Wired is the one causing trouble for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNOvid
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1957
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 871.2 OVIOvid
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 873.01 OVIOvid
Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVISummary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENMeno, Joe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Punk Planet Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENMenn, Joseph
Summary: The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.8 MENIzaḳson, Meron Ḥ.
Summary: This collection of remarkably beautiful, daring and often surprising poems is the first by Israeli poet Miron C. Izakson to appear in a bilingual English-Hebrew edition. Izakson's poetry is many-sided: commonplace yet metaphysical in subject matter, concrete in its imagery yet inclined to abstraction, wildly anarchic yet internally coherent, seemingly secular yet wholly drawn from Jewish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 IZAPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWMemnon SA.
Contents: Celestial Ark -- Daughter Of The Cosmos -- Binary Sun -- Healing Chamber -- Ahura Mazda.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Aurora Borealis 2017